'He Is Flat-Out Hilarious To Me:' Deion Sanders On His Admiration For Mike Gundy

Coach Prime on Mike Gundy

"They have a winning program, one of the most heralded coaches in the Big 12, and he’s been that way for a while. I have the utmost respect for him, and he is flat-out hilarious to me. I mean, just seeing him sit at the head table like the Grand Poobah of the Big 12 meetings. Like, he’s our guy. I got a lot of love and admiration for him, and I start smiling when I think of him and I watch his press conferences. And he is honest, real and hilarious because there’s a lot of truth in all his humor. So, I got the utmost respect for he and his team.”

Deion also had an issue with the Oklahoma City-based Jim Thorpe Award announcing that star Travis Hunter was not included as a finalist for the award.

“How is Travis Hunter snubbed by the Jim Thorpe Award? You can have my award. You can have it back. Matter of fact, I’m gonna give him mine. (Sanders won the award in 1988 while at FSU) I ain’t using it. It’s just sitting up there collecting dust. So Travis can have my Thorpe Award because if this ain’t the most idiotic thing in college football he’s not a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, and he is... I would say arguably, but I don’t think it’s really an argument about this young man being the best defensive back in college football."

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